The mother of a man who committed suicide after he’d sought help from mental health workers has launched a claim for compensation.
Jamie Thomas Mosey, 25, died after hanging himself in June 1010, following the break-up of his long term relationship. He had already tried to take his own life a month earlier and had sought psychiatric help, but his mother Delyth Mosey claims that he was simply told to ‘pull himself together’ and get a job.
Ms Mosey said that her son may still be alive had he received the help he needed, but instead he had been labelled an attention-seeker. She is suing Hywel Dda Health Board for clinical negligence, saying that the mental health department needed to answer for what had happened.
At the inquest, deputy coroner Pauline Mainwaring said that Mr Mosey had a history of severe mental illness and psychosis.
Figures published by the Mental Health Foundation show that suicide is the most common cause of death in men under the age of 35, and that males were three times more likely than females to take their own lives.
Sharon Allison, a specialist injury lawyer added that this was not an isolated incident, and that the firm had recently represented the parents of a young man who had taken his own life, after he had been given unaccompanied leave from a medical establishment.
She said that preventive action was necessary, but that additional pressure on the public sector purse could make the situation worse rather than better.
